from the two indicated elements
Marx ridicules Bauer's "theory of self-consciousness" for its idealism (sophisms of absolute idealism - 222 [155]), points out that this is a paraphrase of Hegel, cites him
The following chapter (VII) begins again with a series of the most tedious, carping criticism 1), pages 228-235 [159-164]. In § 2a - there is an interesting passage.
Marx cites from the "Literary Gazette" a letter from one "representative of the masses," who demands the study of reality, natural science, industry (236) [164] and who was abused for this by "criticism":
"Or (!)" - exclaimed the "critics" against this representative of the masses - "do you think that the cognition of historical reality is already finished? Or (!) do you know even one historical period that has already been truly cognized?"
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of historical movement — the theoretical and practical relationship of man to nature, natural science and industry? Or does it think that it has truly cognized any historical period whatsoever without cognizing, for example, the industry of that period, the immediate mode of production of life itself? True, the spiritualistic
Criticism called this representative of the masses -
"Among the French and English, criticism is not some abstract, otherworldly personality standing outside humanity; it is —
||¯The whole of Chapter VII, pages 228-257 [159-178], apart from the passages cited, contains only the most incredible quibbles, mimicry, the catching of contradictions of the most petty kind, mockery of all sorts of absurdities in the "Literary Gazette" etc.¯||
* - a mass-like materialist. Ed.
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